Episode 8 Celebrity Eggheads

These people are amongst the greatest quiz players in Britain.

Together, they make up the Eggheads, arguably the most

formidable quiz team in the country.

The question is - can they be beaten?

Welcome to a special celebrity edition of Eggheads, the show where

a team of five quiz challengers pit their wits against possibly

the greatest quiz team in Britain. You might recognise them, as they

have won some of the country's toughest quiz shows.

They are the Eggheads.

And taking on our quiz Goliaths today are the Fab Five.

Now, when Pat heard that a certain person was going to be joining

this team of some of the country's most respected journalists

and broadcasters, he got a little bit excited, it must be said.

Suffice to say the mention of a white dress, a high kicking

dance routine and Morecambe and Wise brought a very big grin to his face!

And Pat, Angela has promised to recreate it for you backstage,

if you let her win!

Eggheads, there may be trouble ahead! Let's meet them.

Hello, I'm Jennie Bond. Best known, I suppose, for standing outside

Buckingham Palace for 14 years as the BBC's

Royal Correspondent and these days presenting a number of TV shows.

Hello. I'm Jan Leeming,

TV interviewer, presenter and former newsreader.

Hello, I'm Angela Ripon. I'm a journalist and a broadcaster.

Hello. I'm Sue MacGregor, radio broadcaster.

Used to be one of the presenters of the Today programme,

now I'm doing A Good Read and The Reunion on Radio 4.

Hello, I'm Rosie Boycott.

I'm a journalist and broadcaster

and I'm also the chair of the London Food Board.

Great to see you, Fab Five.

Thank you so much for coming along to try and take

the Eggheads out today. Tell me, I've been wondering about this.

You've obviously got the current affairs side of things covered.

We've got a politics round, I hope. It will be a scramble to play that.

What about the other subjects we've got here? What are your

hidden talents?

Who'd play the arts category if it comes up?

Sue, I think.

Possibly. Possibly.

Keeping our cards close to our chest.

Giving nothing away!

All right then. Listen, let's play the categories for real.

Because only four will come up, and let me tell me what's been

happening so far. Every day there's £1,000 worth of cash up for grabs

for our challengers' chosen charity.

However, if they fail to defeat the Eggheads, the prize money

rolls over to the next show. So Fab Five, the Eggheads have won just

the last game, which means £2,000 says you can't beat the Eggheads.

And let's unveil our first category today. This one is Music.

We didn't discuss that, who'd like to play this? Music?

-Any one of you at this point.

-Is it classical or modern?

It's all mixed up. You've got classical, modern, pop, jazz...

I think it's got to be Angela.

-I know nothing about pop music.

-I think it should be her.

-Musicals...

-Angela's been nominated.

-She's volunteered!

-I've been nominated, yes!

Go on, high kick your way across!

Make Pat's day! Would you like to choose?

You get to choose, Angela, because

we try and tip the balance in your favour.

-We would like to choose CJ, please.

-I'd be honoured!

CJ. Absolutely. You should be!

-Angela Ripon, no less!

-Absolutely!

.. is taking you into the question room. Could I ask you both

to go to the question room, to make sure you can't confer with team-mates. That's Angela and CJ.

So, Angela, where do we start? Your musical tastes - what is

your favourite musical genre?

Quite a lot of classical, some jazz.

Pop probably mostly from the Sixties and Seventies. My era!

OK. And we can't pass by without...

Pat's asked me to.

The high kicking with Morecambe and Wise, just tell me how that

came about? Did you suggest it? Did they suggest it?

Or were you volunteered, a bit like playing this round today?!

Yeah, a bit like that!

No, I was asked to do the programme because they would get somebody to do

something out of the box, as it were, at the end of

their Christmas show every year.

And at that time, I was the first journalist news reader, the first

woman journalist news reader on the BBC and I had quite a high profile.

And so they asked me if I would be the end turn, as it were.

They asked me first of all to sing, which I can't.

But I said, well, I did study classical ballet till I was 17.

So Ernest Maxim, who was the producer, said, well that's it,

we'll get you to do a dance routine. That was how it started.

OK, let's play the round now. Would you like to go first or second?

I think I'd like to go second.

Right then, CJ. Your first question then. Don't Stop Moving and Never

Had A Dream Come True were UK number one hit singles for which group?

S Club 7, All Saints or Hear'Say?

I think

they are both S Club 7. Let me just have a moment.

Not Hear'Say, because they only had one number one, I think.

And I don't think All Saints would have reduced themselves to that.

So I think it's S Club 7.

It's the right answer, yes. S Club 7, Don't Stop Moving

and Never Had A Dream Come True.

Glad you swerved that one, Angela?

Oh, yes!

Here's your first question.

Part of the chorus of the song, It's a Long Way to Tipperary, runs

"goodbye, Piccadilly, farewell..."

where? Berkeley Square, Trafalgar Square, or Leicester Square?

It's not exactly my era, but I do actually know it!

I'm pretty sure it's "farewell, Leicester Square".

Leicester Square, of course. Yes, the right answer.

Okay. All square. CJ,

in which century did the Austrian composer Anton Bruckner live?

18th, 19th, or 20th?

Hate these! Hate these!

Don't like classical music.

Hate these!

Oh, dear, I'm not at all sure, but I thought it was later rather

than earlier so I'll try 20th.

OK, 20th century for Anton Bruckner.

Angela, you said you fancied classical music more.

-What do you think?

-I think he's right. I think he's

20th century. I think he's early 1900s.

Well, nearly made it there, but it's not your question, so

it doesn't matter. It's incorrect!

-19th!

-19th, indeed.

1824-1896.

Just on the cusp. But that's good news for you, Angela. CJ not getting

that one means you can take the lead on your second question.

But only if I get it right!

That's the very point! Yes! That is the important thing.

Let's hope you can. Here you go.

Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue was a hit in 1977 for which singer?

Carly Simon, Crystal Gayle, or Elkie Brooks?

Not Elkie Brooks, I don't think, so I think it's either Crystal

Gayle or Carly Simon.

Crikey!

I think it might be Carly Simon.

OK, Carly Simon, Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue.

You narrowed it down quite well, but didn't get it! It's Crystal Gayle.

Listen, it's a shot to nothing, Angela, it stays all square.

No particular damage done.

And your third question, CJ.

Which song was at the top of the UK singles chart on 4th May, 1979?

The day Margaret Thatcher was elected prime minister.

Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?, Wuthering Heights, or Bright Eyes?

I don't know it, but I'm hoping this is just ironic and it's

Do Ya Think I'm Sexy!

I don't think it was Bright Eyes, cos I think that's earlier.

I'm just going to help it's unbelievably ironic,

it's Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?.

Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?

It's not. It is Bright Eyes.

Like you,

I thought that was earlier. Maybe the film came out earlier.

Okay, well, that's great news for you, Angela, because you've got

a chance to win the round and get into the final round with this.

The standard tuning for a regular six string guitar has both

the lowest and the highest strings tuned to which note? A, D or E?

Well, I don't know, because I don't play the guitar.

I think an orchestra

tunes to an A.

I have to go with A, I can't think that it would be anything else.

Because I just don't know!

OK! Well, it's a one in three shot, then!

A regular six string guitar, both the lowest and highest

strings are tuned to E.

E, Angela, E. But again, CJ got his previous question wrong,

so it stays all square.

We change it ever-so-slightly now, similar type of questions, but we're

going to remove the options now to sort out a winner.

CJ, what was the surname of the jazz pianist and vocalist and his singer

daughter whose first names were

Nathaniel, usually shortened to Nat, and Natalie?

Cole.

Correct. Yes.

I knew that!

You'll know this. You'll know this, Angela.

In 1994, Barbra Streisand had a UK

top 20 hit single with As If We Never Said Goodbye,

written for which stage musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber?

I think it's the one that Don Black wrote the lyrics for.

And I think it's Sunset Boulevard.

Yes, it is. Well done, Angela.

Sunset Boulevard. OK, still going strong.

CJ, which avant-garde British group had a UK top-ten single in 1979

with a cover version of the Berry Gordy song Money?

Pass.

Good, that's nice and quick.

The group, the Flying Lizards.

That doesn't enlighten anyone.

Isn't that great CJ got that?!

That's great.

Angela. Another chance to get into the final round, knock CJ out.

Which US rock musician, who died in 1970,

has a blue plaque dedicated to him in Brook Street in London's Mayfair?

Ooh, I think I know this.

I think it's Jimi Hendrix.

You're rocking.

It's the right answer, Angela.

Rocking into the final round.

You've knocked CJ out.

Would you both come back and join your teams?

A storming round by Angela means the Fab Five are all intact.

The Eggheads have lost one of their team.

We move on it to our next subject, this is Politics.

Who would like to play? It can't be Angela.

Rosie?

-I'm going to do general knowledge.

-THEY CONFER

-It's Sue.

-Definitely.

Now, pick an Egghead. It can't be CJ.

So, they are Pat, Barry, Chris and Daphne.

She'll be very good, but we think

it should be Daphne.

I don't even know the name of my MP.

OK, it's going to be Sue and Daphne playing politics.

Could I ask you both to take your positions in the question room?

OK, Sue, let's play the round.

Politics - put that accumulated knowledge to the test here.

Would you like to go first or second?

I'll grab the mace and go first.

In Greece, the leader of

the military junta that seized power in 1967 was Colonel who?

It began with a PAPA!

My goodness.

I have a feeling it might have been Papadopoulos.

I'll go for Papadopoulos.

Well done, Sue. You sorted out your PAPAS.

It's the right answer.

And one to you, Sue, with Papadopoulos.

And your first question Daphne. From 1950 to 1974 Enoch Powell was

an MP for a constituency in which Midlands town?

I'm not sure but I think it was Wolverhampton.

Is the right answer. Well done. You have a tick.

Back to you, Sue, second question.

Anthony Giddens, the former director of the London School of Economics,

significantly influenced Tony Blair's thinking on which subject?

It wasn't the Northern Ireland Peace Process.

I never understood what it meant and I'm not sure anyone else did either

but I believe it was the Third Way.

Yes, not much discussed these days.

Rather disappeared. It's the Third Way. Well done.

So, Daphne's second question for you.

The writer and editor Norman Cousins once said which US President's

motto was, if two wrongs don't make a right, try three?

It sounds very much like Richard Nixon.

It does indeed. It's the right answer.

Well, both playing really well.

Sue, third question.

The name of which leading political party in Israel means forward?

Ooh, that's a difficult one.

I'm afraid I'm going to take a punt on this one.

I'm going to say that it's Likud.

OK, forward is...

Kadima.

So, Kadima is forward and Daphne,

you go forward into the final round if you give me a correct answer.

In 1970, the future Irish Prime Minister Charles Haughey

was tried for but acquitted of which offence?

I suppose the logical answer is gunrunning but...

But why do I think this?

I know it's silly

but I'm going to go for hijacking.

A lot of that kind of thing going on in Ireland north and south

in the '70s.

But it was the one you first thought of. It was gunrunning.

There were concerns in the Republic of Ireland about

the troubles in Northern Ireland kicking off at their height.

So, a let-off, Sue. We go to Sudden Death as we saw Angela play which

means I can't offer you any more options and this is your question.

Which female Labour MP and minister

entered Parliament in 1982 as the Member for Peckham?

Peckham, south of the river, south of the Thames river.

I believe it was, and she's still

very much there, it was Harriet Harman.

Yes, it was, Sue. Well done. Harriet Harman.

The constituency changed its name in '97 to Camberwell and Peckham

but in '82 it was just Peckham.

So, Daphne, from 1949 to 1957

Sidney Holland served as the Prime Minister of which country?

Oh, dear.

It's going to be fifty-fifty.

It's either Australia or New Zealand.

And as usual, I'll pick the wrong one and say

Australia.

It's the wrong one.

It's New Zealand!

I think you did well

narrowing it down to Australia or New Zealand out of your own head.

But that means another member of the Fab Five progresses into the final

round, that's you, Sue. Would you both come back and join your teams?

Eggheads, the Fab Five swatting you off like flies at the moment.

As it stands, you've lost two brains from the final round.

The Fab Five are all there. Our next head to head is Science.

What joy!

-It gets better - Jennie, Jan or Rosie to play.

-You said...

Oh, no, you can't do another round.

Only Jennie, Jan or Rosie can play.

-I'm hopeless.

-It's not one of my things at all.

-I don't think anything is my thing!

-Are you going for it?

You need to pick an Egghead.

There's that bit, too.

We'll go for Barry.

Rosie against Barry and the subject is Science.

Could I ask you both to please go to the question room?

Rosie, first or second?

I think I'll go first and get it over with.

Good luck, Rosie. The first question coming up, because of its ability

to absorb electromagnetic radiation, which metal is used to provide

protective shielding around nuclear reactors and X-ray equipment?

-It's lead.

-It is.

Don't beat around the bush. Lead is the right answer.

There you are.

Barry, the pons is a tract of nerve fibres in which organ

of the human body?

Not the liver.

Just trying to think if there's

a pons in the heart. My instinctive answer would be the brain,

because I think that's where the brain stem comes into the brain.

I'll go for the brain.

Yours is obviously very active. It's the right answer.

Brain is correct.

Rosie, the Newton named after Sir Isaac Newton is the absolute unit

of what in the international system of units?

I'm going to go for Force.

You've gone for Force.

-I've gone for Force.

-You have got the right answer.

Barry, the Schick test introduced in 1913 is used

is used to determine the susceptibility to which disease?

Diphtheria.

Is the right answer. You're rattling out these answers. 2-2.

Third question could decide a winner of the round.

Rosie, which poisonous substance was

often used in the production of green wallpaper in the 19th century?

Green wallpaper? Why not pink wallpaper?

I don't know. I'm going to go for Arsenic. Arsenic and Old Lace.

Arsenic and wallpaper.

It's the right answer.

-Well done, Rosie.

-There's a theory, Dermot...

-Napoleon!

-That's what I was going to say.

His wallpaper was full of arsenic.

That's right and when he was imprisoned on St Helena

his bedroom had green wallpaper and some tests were taken on Napoleon's

hair some time after he'd been transferred to Hotel des Invalides

in Paris and they found large quantities of arsenic in his hair.

Well, you are behind and need to get this.

Or another Egghead bites the dust.

The Wollaston medal inaugurated in 1831 is

an award for which of the sciences?

That's a tough one but I think it's Astronomy.

It's a tough one. But it's for geology.

I don't think they had invented geology then. Or psychology.

All those

green ticks there after the green wallpaper, rather appropriate.

You're through to the final round as well, Rosie.

Would you both please come back and join your teams?

Going swimmingly for the Fab Five at the moment. Three Eggheads gone!

And none of the Fab Five.

But will the Eggheads take this lying down, or will they fight back?

The last head-to-head before the final round.

This one is Arts and Books. Jennie or Jan to play it.

Arts and Books.

Jenny. Literature degree, off you go.

Stay with us and pick an Egghead.

-The remaining ones are Chris and Pat.

-I'm going for Pat.

Let's have Pat and Jennie into the question room, please.

Jennie, do you want to go first or second?

I'd like to leave the room, actually.

I will go... second.

That puts you in to bat, Pat.

And your first question is this. What was the name of the artist

and older sister of the Welsh painter Augustus John?

Lyn John, Dawn John or Gwen John?

I think she was named Gwen John.

Augustus John's sister, Gwen John.

That is the right answer.

One to you, Pat. OK, Jennie, good luck with this.

Which poet laureate wrote biographies of John Keats and Philip Larkin?

Andrew Motion, Cecil Day-Lewis or John Betjeman?

Um... unsurprisingly, I don't know.

Um... I'm going to say...

I don't think it was Andrew Motion.

Um...

I'm going to say John Betjeman.

OK, John Betjeman, biographies of Keats and Larkin.

-Is wrong?

-Is wrong. It's Andrew Motion.

-Oh, no!

You can comfort yourself that it wasn't one you were considering.

But it is the early question.

Anything can happen. Pat can slip up on any of the next two, I'm sure.

Pat, which Charles Dickens character is always describing himself and his

circumstances as "very 'umble"?

Uriah Heep, Abel Magwitch or Edmund Sparkler?

Um... before his heavy metal days, it was Uriah Heep.

Very nice, I like it. Very good.

It is the right answer, yes, Uriah Heep.

And your second question, Jennie.

Let's get you going. You need to get this, actually.

Which artist

painted Christ in the house of his parents, now owned by the Tate,

which portrays the young Jesus in Joseph's carpentry workshop?

Is it JMW Turner, John Everett Millais or Edward Burne-Jones?

I don't imagine, for some reason, that it was Turner.

So it probably is! Um...

I am going to go for Burne-Jones.

-OK...

-Oh, it's wrong!

It is wrong, Jennie!

It's just unlucky. If you've got to guess at two, it's

worse than tossing a coin, isn't it? It's one in three. It is Millais.

John Everett Millais, the Christ in the house of his parents.

So it brings the round to a rather abrupt end.

You won't be playing in the final round, Jennie.

Come back and join your teams.

So, this is what we have been playing towards. It is

time for the final round, which as always is General Knowledge.

I'm afraid those of you who lost your head-to-heads won't be allowed

to take part in this round.

So Jennie from the Fab Five and CJ, Daphne - yes, you - and Barry

from the Eggheads, would you please leave the studio?

Jan, Angela, Sue and Rosie,

you're playing to win the Fab Five £2,000 for your chosen charity.

Chris and Pat, you're playing for something which money can't buy.

-Do you know what it is?

-Yes, it's reputation.

Well said, Chris, yes. The Eggheads' reputation.

As usual, I'll ask each team three questions in turn. This time,

the questions are general knowledge and you are allowed to confer.

That is the big difference, you are not on your own. Fab Five,

are your four brains better than the Eggheads' two?

And Fab Five, would you like to go first or second?

Second, please.

It seems to be working, doesn't it, going second? OK, Eggheads,

it's your first question, then. The early years of which media

mogul's publishing career included taking charge in the 1950s

of the Adelaide News, a paper he inherited from his father?

Is it Robert Maxwell, Ted Turner or Rupert Murdoch?

Ted Turner is American, so it's not him.

Robert Maxwell, the less said, the better.

He was a Czech originally.

So it has got to be an Australian, hasn't it? The Adelaide Times.

It's got to be Rupert Murdoch.

Murdoch's father was a press man, as well.

-It's Rupert Murdoch, Dermot.

-OK, the Australian connection, clearly.

It is the right answer, Rupert Murdoch.

Your first question, Fab Five. You're the Fab Four now.

The four Inns of Court in London, the associations to which all

barristers in England and Wales must belong, are known as Middle Temple,

Inner Temple, Lincoln's Inn and which other?

Black's Inn, Gray's Inn or White's Inn?

The four Inns of Court in London, the associations

to which all barristers in England and Wales must belong, are known as

Middle Temple, Inner Temple, Lincoln's Inn and which other?

Right. Unanimously, Gray's Inn.

Gray's Inn it is, that's correct.

Gray's Inn.

And so you have one apiece.

And Eggheads, in 2009, cricketer Philip Hughes became the youngest

person to score a test century in each innings for which country?

South Africa, Australia or New Zealand?

I think he is an Australian prodigy.

He's a super new talent from Australia.

I wouldn't know! No relation of mine.

-We think he's Australia, Dermot, so it'll be Australia.

-OK.

You've almost had two questions in a row where the answer's Australian.

It is the right answer, yes. Philip Hughes, the Australian

player, the wunderkind.

OK, Fab Five.

Sphairistike is seen by many as a precursor to which game?

I am going to spell this for you after I give you the options.

Tennis, ice hockey or water polo.

-How do you spell it?

-I am just about to do that for you.

Sphairistike, S-P-H-A-I-R-I-S-T-I-K-E.

It must be Greek. Don't you think it's a Greek word?

They didn't play ice hockey in Greece.

Can you say... It's a prelude to it?

It is seen by many as a precursor to which game? A precursor.

Tennis, ice hockey or water polo?

What does a precursor mean?

-Precursor means what it was before it became water polo.

-It depends how

far back you want to go, Dermot? How far would you like to go?

Do you think so? All right. OK.

Fine.

The girls think it's water polo.

Water polo for sphairistike.

It is seen by many as a precursor to...

Tennis.

-What?!

-Yes, tennis.

It's the original version of lawn tennis as opposed to real tennis.

Sphairistike is Greek for "ball game".

Ah! OK, well, it means the Eggheads have a chance to win it here

if you get this. If not, another question for the Fab Five.

Oneiromancy

is the practice of interpreting what in order to fortell the future?

Animal entrails, weather patterns or dreams? O-N-E-I-R-O-M-A-N-C-Y.

Animal entrails is haspercy...whatever the proper term

is. I don't know weather patterns... I think it's dreams.

-Oneiromancy is dreams.

-Right.

We're unanimous on this, Dermot. It's the interpretation of dreams.

You've just shattered the Fab Five's dreams.

It is the right answer, Eggheads. You've won.

APPLAUSE

Don't clap. It only encourages them!

Yeah, but you're got the moral victory.

Look at that in the head-to-heads. It is the first time in

Celebrity Eggheads where they've been beaten

3-1 in the head-to-heads, where there have been four of

the challengers against two of them. So, thank you very much, Fab Five.

Great to see you but the Eggheads have done what comes naturally

and they still reign supreme over quizland.

You haven't won the £2,000,

which means the money rolls over to the next show.

Eggheads, congratulations.

Who will beat you? Join us next time to see

if a team from the One Show have the brains to defeat the Eggheads.

£3,000 says they don't.

Until then, goodbye.

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